Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 114
ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET (RYBA”SH)

Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part ornamental woodcut border. Wide-margined copy. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy ff. 295 (of 303) lacking 8 ( of 21) leaves of indices. 13 leaves of indices bound in at end. Outer margin of title neatly taped on verso, stained, marginal worming in places. Early 20th-century half-morocco, loose. Folio Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145; Adams I-179

Constantinople: Eliezer Soncino 1545-46

Est: $1,500 - $2,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,700
Particularly important for the social history of the Jews in 14th-century Spain. The work was originally sold in single gatherings, it proved to be the last book printed by Soncino in Turkey